Anything Goes {NYC: Part 2}

{NYC Part 1}

Friday started out with brunch at Café Lalo. Actually, it started out with breakfast plans elsewhere only upon arrival at the location, we discovered it was borded up with "Danger: poison" signs on the doors. Yikes. Luckily my bestie is a genius and soon came up with a new plan, only she insisted it be a surprise. I was so excited when Tina led me to the new location because I immediately recognized its cute exterior. It was the café where Meg Ryan (Kathleen Kelly/Shopgirl) waits to meet her secret penpal Tom Hanks (Joe Fox/ NY152) in “You’ve Got Mail”!

The truth is, I would’ve loved this café movie or no movie because it was so cute—but I loved it even more due to its connection.

In the early afternoon I met up with my friend Justine to catch up…we hadn’t seen each other in 7 years! I had such a fun time chatting with her about the old days. If you had overheard our conversation you would’ve thought we were speaking code as we reminisced about FAP, HMS Pumpkin Pie (WIN) vs The Good Ship (boo), our joint love for SS Fire & Ice, one-shots, SCUSA, shipping, minxes, etc. We bemoaned the youngins who don’t know what all of that means and what hard core HP fans we were/are. We ate at Amsterdam Diner and then sat out at Riverside Park.

{"Like sand through the hourglass, these are the minxes of our lives..."}

Friday night Tina and I met up with my other good college friend, Janie, at Hurley’s Saloon before our showing of “Anything Goes.” I loved my lobster bisque and stuffed clams, but I loved conversation with the girls even more.

After the show, we stopped by the good old TQ (inside joke) at night.

On Saturday poor Tina was sick so Janie picked me up from Tina’s apartment and we headed out to the Union Square market. What a delightful market it was! Fresh everything, organic peppermint tea to cool me right down to my core in the heat and lots of sensory stimulation of the visual and olfactory kind. I grabbed an apple before we left and then we relaxed in the park in the middle for a bit before heading on.

Next we went to the Highline. I must admit I’d never heard of this until my trip, but it was quite a nice sight. The Highline is an old above ground train line that has now been redone into a beautiful walkway/park. It stretches for a ways and offers great views of the city. It was packed when we were there and we only went for a bit, but I know Tina and Janie will look forward to going back (since they live there and all…)

Next up was a stop at Gray’s Papayas—another “You’ve Got Mail” shooting spot—for some hot dogs and delicious papaya juice and then on to Levain for warm giant cookies.

The rest of Saturday was spent relaxing with “Pushing Daisies” and mac ‘n’ cheese so Tina could rest and recover more.

Sunday was a low-key and yet packed day. We started out at the Met where we pondered which artifacts in the Egyptian wing may have belonged to Tina’s relative.

Tina is Egyptian and I happen to have been obsessed with Egyptian culture as a young one so I couldn’t get enough of it.

We decided this was probably a portrait of our earlier incarnations as Egyptians.

After the Met we were off to brunch at “Good Enough to Eat.” If you’ve been to NYC, you may have been there or heard of it. It was definitely a popular spot with quite the line out the door, even on a rainy day. I can definitely see why; it was insanely delicious! I got the “Gramercy Park” omelet on Tina’s recommendation. First you need to understand that I don’t really like omelet-style eggs. I decided to go for it anyway because I can sometimes handle omelets if done well. (I can never handle scrambled though—hate ‘em.) This omelet was egg, granny smith apple and Vermont white cheddar. Oh. My. Gosh. Guys, this omelet was out of this world. I devoured it in record Kate-time.

We finished up the day with Shakespeare in the park—but that’s for tomorrow’s post! Meet you back here then, yeah? Daniel Radcliffe; musicals; Shakespeare; what’s not to like?